Question now is, what habit, if any, did Mackenzie have? I remember what it was like to be addicted to cigarettes. If I ran out of cigarettes, I would have walked alone in the middle of the night to the convenience store to get a pack. Not smart, but I would have done it. The mystery is, what compelled Mackenzie to set her own personal safety aside like that. She had so much going for her, it's really sad. |
Just wanted to say your daughter is lucky to have you! |
+1 and if somebody DOES manage to get in the car and force you to drive, try to drive into a brick building or tree. I'd rather die like that than go off with some weird, sick guy. |
PP here. Exactly. |
Fact: Most parents don't have time to teach their kids about personal responsibility. |
Many parents don't make the time to teach their kids about personal responsibility. |
Sounds like she was addicted to the thrill of being desired. It is truly a tragic story and makes me so sick. She was playing with fire but thought she could handle it... she couldn't. She seems like she was not aware of the sickos lurking in plain site. She was the prey. |
I never heard of the "SD/SB" phenomenon until reading this thread, but back in my day -- like 25 yrs ago, it wasn't called that, but it was very available to me as a young employee or intern. I was propositioned several times by different older men -- some who were married -- who were looking for fresh young blood. These were generally people I met through work. I was as wholesome as could be, and wasn't interested in old men. But, I can see how easily it could happen b/c older men are making the offers and young women are easy to flatter. |
Every naive teen/20-something is prey. Their parents like to believe this would never happen to *their*’kid. |
O.k....she could have walked into any club in town or any party at school and had guys hitting on her. She was a pretty girl and I'm sure she got her fair share of attention. I just find it hard to believe that there isn't more to this whole thing. The business of meeting this stranger in an isolated park at 3am makes no sense. There had to be a reason beyond just wanting to feel desired. I really do suspect that drugs played a role in this. |
Guys. She was a prostitute. She was doing this with several men. She bragged about being an experienced SB and posted half naked pics online. She was absolutely thrilled, in that pathetic way girls with zero self esteem have, with being an object of desire for as many men as possible and they were happy to pay for meals, clothes, jewelry etc. to have their own pet college slut. She probably thought she could parlay it into a lifestyle of being a trophy wife who never has to work. She would have done anything any of them asked. That's really all there was to it. |
Maybe if you are white and a Mormon. Otherwise, no. |
I understand the whole reason why a young woman might find this "sugar baby" lifestyle to be worth doing. I don't understand how a girl would completely toss aside any sense of her own personal safety to meet a strange man alone in a dark park. That man could have been anyone....as she sadly found out. |
He said jump and she said how high? Look at the OP on this reddit entitled "I'm 21 years old with a 56 year old sugar daddy...AMA": https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ctixw/im_21_years_old_with_a_56_year_old_sugar_daddyama/ "Essentially he pays for my college, apartment, car, clothes and gives me spending money and in exchange I'm at his beck and call 24/7." |
False. The park city money crowd isn't Mormon. Rich people are taking over Utah because it's beautiful and has great hiking and skiing. |